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作者：Newland, CA
作者单位：University of Southern California
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作者：Boyne, GA
摘要：Empirical studies suggest that local service contracting lead to higher efficiency, which seems to support public choice arguments an the vices of municipal monopoly and virtues of competition. A methodological critique of the evidence shows that these conclusions are not valid. Major deficiencies of the statistical tests include the omission of relevant control variables and the absence of measures of competition. Implications for the theory and practice of public administration are identified.
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作者：Luton, LS
作者单位：Eastern Washington University
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作者：Stoker, RP; Wilson, LA
作者单位：George Washington University; University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
摘要：Recent reforms have added the burdens of social regulation to the difficulties of implementing welfare policy. State and local welfare bureaus have had to develop means to monitor clients to verify that they have complied with behavioral demands. Drawing upon our examination of the Primary Prevention Initiative, a welfare reform implemented in Maryland we describe and evaluate true procedures that may be wed to enforce. social regulation. Our findings suggest that implementation difficulties, ...
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作者：Bozeman, B; Kingsley, G
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Among the many assumptions about public management widely embraced but rarely tested is the notion that public sector managers are more averse to risk than managers in the private sector. Taking a multivariate measure of risk culture, this study seeks to identify and to explain differences between public and private organizations. The concept of risk culture pertains to managers perceptions that their co-workers and superiors take risks and promote risk-taking. Some of the factors examined as ...
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作者：Lambright, WH
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：The 1990s have been an era of cutback management and down-sizing in government. How do agencies cope with sharply diminished resources? NASA's Big Science satellite program, until recently called Mission to Planet Earth, illuminates issues that can affect all agencies and programs in the current era. For comparison, the Space Station and the Department of Energy's Superconducting Supercollider are also addressed. Three strategies suitable for cutbacks eras ave discussed: resistance, mitigation...
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作者：Chua, ACH
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
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作者：Luton, LS
作者单位：Eastern Washington University
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作者：Lynn, LE
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：If its academic admirers can avoid the trap of becoming a cult of programmed believers, the New Public Management (NPM) can have three constructive legacies for the field of public administration: (1) a stronger emphasis on performance-motivated administration and inclusion in the administrative canon of performance-oriented institutional arrangements, structural forms, and managerial doctrines fitted to particular contexts, in other words, advances in the state of the public management art; (...
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作者：Schneider, SK; Jacoby, WG; Coggburn, JD
摘要：This paper examines the structure of bureaucratic decisions in state Medicaid programs, More specifically, the analysis tries to discern an underlying pattern in Medicaid optional service adoptions across the American states during the period from 1985 through 1994. These adoptions result from state-level administrative initiatives rather than federal or state legislative actions. The analysis shows that states differ in the extent to which they extend services into more controversial aspects ...
